It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

I try not to do email; I try to talk to people on the phone.

I've been arguing with people for 10 years about tape versus digital, and I believe tape is absolutely essential in getting the sound that's conducive to the enjoyment of music.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

I know my own limitations. And if somebody says, "I need songs for a cartoon garage band - they look like this and they should sound like this," it gives you a direction. I like having that kind of assignment.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.